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Egypt grapples with women’s freedoms online as #MeToo re-emerges
Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women’s rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence.
Cyberstalker gets four years in prison for ‘war’ on US woman
Less than two months after their office romance ended, Ahmad Kazzelbach began tampering with the email and social media accounts of the Baltimore woman who broke up with him. That was only the start of a vicious cyberstalking campaign that would escalate steadily over the next year.
Staff from controversial Internet addiction treatment centre in China jailed for detaining students illegally
Director general and principal among four staff sentenced over holding young people in guarded rooms for days at a time. Court rejects former students’ request for public apology and compensation but all parties are considering whether to appeal.
Bolivia villagers destroy 5G masts over virus fears
Multiple telecoms masts were destroyed Monday by Bolivian villagers who feared that 5G technology could transmit coronavirus, media reports said.
Hong Kong inmates to get tablets in prison trial opening up new world of e-books, movies and skills
For those jailed before smartphones arrived, tablets offer a glimpse of hi-tech life outside.
Women use VR to beat sexual harassment after Singapore #MeToo scandal
VR technology is being used as part of the Girl, Talk project which is aimed at helping women fight back against harassment in Singapore.
Amnesty: Facebook ‘complicit’ in Vietnam censorship
Amnesty International on April 22 accused Facebook of "caving" to Vietnam's strict censorship regime, after the US tech giant confirmed it was blocking content deemed illegal by the country's communist government.
Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic, say sources
Facebook’s local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of "anti-state" posts for local users, two sources at the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
S. Korean portal suspends trending topics to avoid manipulation
South Korea's biggest Internet portal suspended its real-time "trending topics" feature on April 2 ahead of a general election this month, after controversy over politicians and their supporters trying to manipulate the results.
Under lockdown, Italy's social and family life goes virtual
As 60 million Italians face a coronavirus country-wide lockdown, many daily interactions among family, friends and colleagues have moved to messaging platforms such as Facebook Inc's WhatsApp and Microsoft's Corp Skype.
